Thursday, April 9, 1942

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The Headlines

WPB FIXES RULES FOR WOMEN'S WEAR; Order Seeks to Save Materials but Gives Full Scope for Fashion Creativeness WPB Issues Style Decree to Save Fabrics But Leaves Scope for Ingenuity in Design

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Moonlight Cocktail

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The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• World War II: An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and the Australian destroyer HMAS Vampire.

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• World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends and the Bataan Death March begins.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Charles Baudelaire (1821)
• Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933)
• Leopold II of Belgium (1835)
• Hugh Hefner (1926)
• Elias Lönnrot (1802)

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Tech Check

V-2 Rocket, Bazooka & Napalm.

Cost of Living (1940)